07/10/2017

#827 Red White and Blue – Still Channeling July Fourth Spirits

July!

It still boggles my mind a bit actually… how is it already July??? We were just discussing June on the blog. The year is literally half-way over (mind blown).

To be fair, life has been a bit of a blur lately – days go by quickly, while certain moments seem to last an eternity. Mamma went back to work in June (more on that later -- but you can also read my reflections of a working mother from the first time I went through this), so I’m still getting used to the new routine. My oldest munchkin started summer camp, which somehow seems like a major production all on its own (how is it that I need to prepare three different outfits for him in any given day?!!). The short answer: because he swims twice a day at camp. Admittedly, this ain't nothing compared to the early days when we started preschool for the first time ever -- where practically EVERYTHING was new, including insurmountable separation anxiety and the unfathomable reality that my little munchkin was truly growing up!

To top it all off, hubs and I have been splitting our time between Long Island and Manhattan – mostly Manhattan during the week, and mostly Long Island on the weekends, with a bit of both mixed in between, all while we wait for our much anticipated new construction to be finished in the illustrious Lower East Side. It may sound okay on paper, but in practice it can get mega hectic.

Sigh… but what is life without a bit of chaos thrown into the mix right?

To take you back to simpler times… here are some photos taken during July Fourth earlier last week (the first for Rockshic Baby #2!), a day when we’re all forced to sit back, slow down, take a breather, and just celebrate America. “It’s America’s day!!!” exclaims hubby, who – admittedly, would much rather have both our boys dressed in All Blacks Kiwi tops all day, erryday.

We didn’t get up to much on Independence Day actually – mamma being typical me, had scoped out all of the local fireworks hotspots on eastern Long Island (at one stage I had this fabulous idea of driving out to Montauk, or even North Fork via Greenport… what better way than watching fireworks on the beach or over the Peconic River?). In the end however, hubs nixed all of the above option, and it was probably a good thing that he did. We stayed home, kiddos in bed, beverages in hand, and congratulated each other on yet another day (well) spent. To lift a quote from a Walt Whitman poem (admittedly he was speaking about a whirlwind passionate rendez-vous, but the sentiment remains the same)….

… We were together… I forget the rest.

That’s how it goes these days my lovelies, and I wouldn’t take it any other way or have anything differently – with the exception of our new apartment, which I am absolutely, 100% anxious to move into already!!

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It still boggles my mind a bit actually… how is it already July??? We were just discussing June on the blog. The year is literally half-way over (mind blown).

To be fair, life has been a bit of a blur lately – days go by quickly, while certain moments seem to last an eternity. Mamma went back to work in June (more on that later -- but you can also read my reflections of a working mother from the first time I went through this), so I’m still getting used to the new routine. My oldest munchkin started summer camp, which somehow seems like a major production all on its own (how is it that I need to prepare three different outfits for him in any given day?!!). The short answer: because he swims twice a day at camp. Admittedly, this ain't nothing compared to the early days when we started preschool for the first time ever -- where practically EVERYTHING was new, including insurmountable separation anxiety and the unfathomable reality that my little munchkin was truly growing up!

To top it all off, hubs and I have been splitting our time between Long Island and Manhattan – mostly Manhattan during the week, and mostly Long Island on the weekends, with a bit of both mixed in between, all while we wait for our much anticipated new construction to be finished in the illustrious Lower East Side. It may sound okay on paper, but in practice it can get mega hectic.

Sigh… but what is life without a bit of chaos thrown into the mix right?

To take you back to simpler times… here are some photos taken during July Fourth earlier last week (the first for Rockshic Baby #2!), a day when we’re all forced to sit back, slow down, take a breather, and just celebrate America. “It’s America’s day!!!” exclaims hubby, who – admittedly, would much rather have both our boys dressed in All Blacks Kiwi tops all day, erryday.

We didn’t get up to much on Independence Day actually – mamma being typical me, had scoped out all of the local fireworks hotspots on eastern Long Island (at one stage I had this fabulous idea of driving out to Montauk, or even North Fork via Greenport… what better way than watching fireworks on the beach or over the Peconic River?). In the end however, hubs nixed all of the above option, and it was probably a good thing that he did. We stayed home, kiddos in bed, beverages in hand, and congratulated each other on yet another day (well) spent. To lift a quote from a Walt Whitman poem (admittedly he was speaking about a whirlwind passionate rendez-vous, but the sentiment remains the same)….

… We were together… I forget the rest.

That’s how it goes these days my lovelies, and I wouldn’t take it any other way or have anything differently – with the exception of our new apartment, which I am absolutely, 100% anxious to move into already!!

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